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“People like you generate the demand for these images. Without any audience composed of people like you far fewer innocent children would be physically abused. It’s disgusting to think of the pleasure people like you seem to derive from the destruction of young lives.”

Prosecutor Francesca Whebell said police went to his house in January 2016. They seized the devices and analysed the internet history.

Exeter Crown Court

They found more than one million images, said the prosecutor.

Ms Whebell said of the 599 indecent images, there were 83 stills and 51 movies in the most serious category.

The search history showed he had actively been looking for child abuse material.

Judge Evans said it was difficult to determine what the sentence should be considering not all of the one million images had been analysed by police.

“I can see it is convenient,” he said.

“But defendants who would go away for some time are not because the prosecution are taking the easy route.”